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Bishop Grigorje has engaged in several actions on behalf of interreligious understanding and cooperation

At the beginning of April 2002, Bishop Grigorije convened an interfaith
conference of religious leaders in Trebinje:

Both Banja Luka dailies report on the inter-religious conference dedicated to peace and inter-religious dialogue, which takes place in Trebinje and is hosted by the Serb Orthodox Bishop Grigorije. The papers report that the representatives of all 4 major religious communities in BiH participate in the conference. Bishop of ahumlje and Herzegovina, Grigorije said that the goal of the conference is that we tell each other what we feel and what we think and to open the door for new dialogues which will eventually be initiated in other parts of BiH in order to resolve all our problems in a peaceful manner. Banja Luka Mufti, Edhem Camdzic said that there is no peace without freedom of thought and freedom of religious freedom as well as without reconstruction of all destroyed places of worship.The differences between us have to be our advantages and not disadvantages, said the Banja Luka Mufti. The President of the Jewish Community in Mostar, Zoran Mandelbaum stressed that differences between religions must not be an obstacle to reaching a long-lasting peace and coexistence in BiH. Representative of the Catholic Church, Franciscan priest Marko Orsolic pointed out that peace cannot be restored with political decisions but only with true reconciliation with God and with restoration of human lives not only places of worship.

Bishop Grigorije also lent his public support to the project to rebuild the oldest mosque in Trebinje, the Osman-pasina dzamija.
http://members.fortunecity.com/imperija4/index.htm
Unfortunately, the local SDS and Seselj-followers organized a riot to stop the corner-stone laying ceremony.

On September 19, 2002, the minaret of the mosque in the village of Kljuc near Gacko, the first mosque to be rebuilt by Bosnian Muslim returnees to that Serb-controlled part of eastern Herzegovina, was blown up by Serb nationalist extremists. Bishop Grigorije immediately condemned the attack, saying, "whoever did this criminal act, he could not have been a religious believer, and certainly not a [true] Orthodox [Christian]." http://www.mm.co.ba/art80_1.html
www.danas.org/vijesti/2002/09/20020920102302.asp